Not in Front of the Children (TV series)

Not in Front of the Children
GenreSitcom
Created byRichard Waring
StarringWendy Craig
Paul Daneman (series 1)
Ronald Hines (series 2-4)
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series4
No. of episodes39 (31 missing)
Production
Running time30 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC1
Release26 May 1967 (1967-05-26) –
9 January 1970 (1970-01-09)
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Not in Front of the Children is a BBC Television sitcom, which ran for four series from 1967 to 1970.[1]

It starred Wendy Craig as Jennifer Corner, a rather scatterbrained middle-class housewife.[2] For her role she received the 1969 British Academy Television Award for Best Actress. Her husband Henry was a school art teacher, played by Paul Daneman in the Comedy Playhouse pilot "House in a Tree" and the first series, and Ronald Hines subsequently.[3] They had three children, a boy in his early teens (played by Hugo Keith-Johnston) and two girls who were slightly younger (played by Roberta Tovey and then Verina Greenlaw, and Jill Riddick).[4] Charlotte Mitchell played her friend Mary.[5]

In later series, she had a baby, and they moved from the London suburb of Battersea to the country.

It is significant mainly as Wendy Craig's first role as a scatty housewife; she played similar roles in several other series over the next 15 years.

  1. ^ "BBC Radio 4 Extra - Not in Front of the Children, Series 1, House in a Tree". BBC.
  2. ^ "BFI Screenonline: Craig, Wendy (1934-) Biography". screenonline.org.uk.
  3. ^ "Not in Front of the Children". 15 February 2017.
  4. ^ "Religious Revival (1968)". BFI. Archived from the original on 5 October 2019.
  5. ^ Hayward, Anthony (7 June 2012). "Charlotte Mitchell obituary". The Guardian.